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Felicity Kendal began writing these richly entertaining and deeply honest memoirs at her father's bedside as he lay in a coma. As she moves hauntingly between the present and the past, Felicity Kendal recaptures her magical childhood in India, her complex relationship with her father, her love affairs and the acting career that led to her being recognized as one of the outstanding actresses of her generation.
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Geoffrey Kendal's dream was to do theatre for as much of his life as he could manage, and to be under nobody's thumb. He and his wife put together a small company, and together they barnstormed around India doing Shakespeare, Wilde, and Shaw for the best part of three decades. Before she was one of the most famous and loved actresses of her generation, Felicity Kendal was Geoffrey's daughter (her first film was Merchant Ivory's Shakespeare Wallah which celebrates his company).
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This memoir of her early life, and of the slow process of watching her father die recently, is distinguished by clear-sightedness; this is a book about the way you love impossible parents even when you have eventually to walk away from them for a while. It is full of the sights and scents of both India and the theatre; there are few better books on the nervous pride of the actor. It is wonderfully evocative too of the unforgivingly hip sixties London to which Felicity Kendal came back as a naive ingenue. The tone of voice is idiosyncratic and charmingly personal and the book as a whole is touching without a scrap of sentimentality. --Roz Kaveney
FELICITY KENDAL is one of Britain's most successful actresses. She has played almost every leading Shakespearean role and has worked with a whole range of contemporary playwrights.Her films include SHAKESPEARE WALLAH, directed by James Ivory, and she has appeared frequently on television, starring in THE GOOD LIFE. She was awarded the CBE in 1995.
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0141801123
- ISBN 13 9780141801124
- BindingAudio Cassette
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